From the Missouri Charter Public School Association newsletter:
Academie Lafayette is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade French immersion charter school in Kansas City.
The school has received numerous honors, including being named a Gold Star School by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education…
St. Louis charter schools have the seventh-largest public school market share in the country, according to a report released today by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
One-quarter of the public school students in St. Louis went to charter schools last…
A Missouri judge has rejected a challenge to the way charter schools are funded in the state.
Cole County Judge Richard Callahan ruled against the Kansas City School District today, according to the Associated Press, after the district filed suit over…
The state board of education’s committee to search for a new education commissioner will meet for the first time at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Jefferson City.
The board hopes to select a new commissioner by mid-summer to replace D. Kent King…
A Kansas City charter school leader will run the state’s charter school association.
The Missouri Charter Public School Association has named Cheri Shannon as its incoming executive director. Shannon is currently the superintendent of University Academy in Kansas City.
She begins work…
A celebrated charter school network is already helping Kansas City students, one of the charter school’s local leaders said this morning.
Students from the KIPP academy in Kansas City, in just its second year, have shown an average of two years…
Paul Faber, Imagine’s regional vice president, just responded to allegations that the Imagine Renaissance Academy in Kansas City violated the law by refusing to hire two pregnant women for administrative slots.
He said:
I am aware of the allegations. After having thoroughly investigated…
